In case you’ve not booked your ticket yet, but were considering coming and needed one more reason: I’ll be giving a tutorial on Sphinx at RailsConf in Las Vegas next month. To get 15% discount, use the code ‘RC09FOS’. (O’Reilly seem to hand out codes everywhere. If you paid full price this time, keep that in mind for next year.)

If you will be there, I’m more than happy to have a chat – about Sphinx or anything else – so let me know if you want to meet up.

Crowdsourced Research

For those of you who know Sphinx and Thinking Sphinx already, I’d love to hear about the things you found a bit difficult when learning. What are the topics I should make sure I cover in my tutorial, that are maybe lacking in documentation?

I’m pretty happy with this talk – but I realise I’m not that great a speaker. Imagine what I’d be like on a bad day ;)

Geoff didn’t catch the very start of the talk, which went something along the lines of “Hi, my name’s Pat, and I’m Australian [Cheers from Audience] I want to start of with some flattery, because I want to get on your good side.”

I’ve just started my round-the-world conferences-and-holiday adventure, and the first stop is RailsConf in Portland – so if you’re in town and see me wandering around looking rather cluelessly, please say hi.

Also, in case you’re on the Twitter bandwagon, you’ll find me with the creative nickname of pat.

About Freelancing Gods

In case you're wondering what the likely content here will be about (besides code), keep in mind that Pat is passionate about the internet, music, politics, comedy, bringing people together, and making a difference. And pancakes.